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TenderfootFarm
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If I understand correctly, they were bred to be a sacrifice for the good of the herd. Predator comes, fainting goat faints, valuable livestock gets away. Sad really. I never try to make our goats faint. It happens at random. They may just get excited at grain time and fall over. Our oldest still faint.Fainting goats are a lot of fun - they don't faint voluntarily, it's more a protection devise.
If they look dead some preds may ignore them. As they mature they stop fainting and just have slight shaking in the legs - so enjoy the fainting while it lasts.